On August 25th, Finnish cinemascope metallers Crimfall will release their new album, 'Amain', worldwide via Metal Blade Records! Please visit youtube.com to see the video for the new single 'Until Falls the Rain'!

Two new 'Delirious Nomad' tour shirts have been raised from the dead! These shirts are reproductions of actual tour shirts pulled from the band's closet. The shirts are available for pre-order August 16th-September 6th in limited quantities.

On October 20th, GWAR will release a new album, 'The Blood of Gods', via Metal Blade. In support of this, your Lords and Masters will leave their arctic slumber and return to the road to cause aural devastation across North America.

On September 15th, Metal Blade Records will release Whitechapel's 'The Somatic Defilement' for the first time ever on vinyl! Re-mastered for vinyl, this special re-issue will be available in four variations.

With their debut, 'Birth and the Burial,' Act of Defiance delivered a blast of pure and unadulterated metal. This year, the band returns with their sinister new album, 'Old Scars, New Wounds,' hitting retailers on September 29th.

Byzantine - the most underrated band from the New Wave of American Heavy Metal Movement! - recently released their new album, 'The Cicada Tree,' via Metal Blade Records; for their efforts, the band has now entered the Billboard charts!

'For the Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records' - written by label founder and CEO Brian Slagel with Mark Eglinton, and featuring a foreword by Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich - is now available for pre-order.

On September 15th, Ensiferum will release their seventh full-length, 'Two Paths', worldwide via Metal Blade Records. To hear the first single, 'For Those About to Fight for Metal', please visit metalblade.com/ensiferum